Events2012

Be sure to attend our party on Tuesday, December 11th from 11:00 to 12:30 p.m. in Humanities room 230. Food and refreshments will be provided. Come ready to congratulate our graduating students, and celebrate the end of the fall semester!

M.A. candidate Krissy Peterson organized a successful panel on religious diversity at CU's Diversity and Inclusion Summit on November 15, 2012. The panel included students from a variety of religious perspectives, who discussed their experiences on campus. The event was well attended by students, faculty and staff.

The Department of Religious Studies will be hosting Omid Safi, a leading Muslim-American scholar, media figure, and public commentator on Islam and Muslims in the United States. He is the author of the influential books, Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters and Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism...

Meet with a Harvard Divinity School representative on Monday, October 8th from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Eaton Humanities room 23O to learn about their masters and doctorial programs. RSVPs are welcomed, not required: http://apply.hds.harvard.edu/register/UCBouldervisit Light refreshments will be served.

Manuel Vasquez will present the 2012 Lester Lecture on October 4 at 6:30 p.m. in Hale 230. The title for his talk is "The Materialist Turn in Religious Studies: Promises, Challenges, and Pitfalls." Vasquez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. Vasquez has...

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Religious Studies alumna Yolanda Chichester is currently involved in an art project, titled ¡Rediseñar los Campitos!, directed by the community and site based art collective, M12. The project opened on July 1st in front of the City and County Building of Denver at Civic Center Park. Today, July 8th, it...

Our reception and graduation ceremony will start at 11:30 a.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, Room 150 on Friday, May 11, 2012. If you are a graduating Religious Studies senior, or graduating master's student please be sure to attend. To RSVP, please contact Lisa.Spiegel@colorado.edu or by phone: 303-492-8041 to confirm...

Associate Professor Brian Catlos will speak at the Multicultural Mosaic Foundation on March 13 on "Islamic Spain and Modern Western Culture, or What Bill Gates and Bob Dylan Owe to Medieval Islam." Hard as it may be to believe, if a small Muslim army had not conquered what was then...

Visiting Professor Elaine Padilla will give a talk on: “Fluid Borders and Expansive Space: in Search of the Hospitable Sacred” on Monday, March 5, 2012 in Eaton Humanities 250 at 3:00 p.m. Elaine Padilla is Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology at New York Theological Seminary. Dr. Padilla uses cross-disciplinary approaches,...